Simion Mehedinti, academician, cultural personality, was born on 19 October 1869, in Vrancea County, Romania. He had a particular role in youth education through his writings and numerous appearances in front of the Romanian students.
Contributor to numerous publications, including Student Word, Sunday People magazines, or specialized magazines as Annals of the Romanian Academy, Bulletin of the Romanian Society of Geography, Annals of Geography and Anthropogeography, Volkermagazin(Germany, became director of the Literary Talks magazine.
In 1915 has became member of the Romanian Academy and in spring 1918, in the formation of the Marghiloman government, he has been appointed Minister of Public Instruction.
Pofessor at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest, Simion Mehedinti set up the first geography department in universities of the country, forming prestigious generations of specialists as: George Valsan, Constantin Bratescu, Vintila Mihailescu and many other great names.
Mehedinti develops a system in geography, presented in the work entitled Terra-introduction in geography as science and between 1940-1944 collaborated with numerous geopolitics magazines.
Simion Mehedinti is in the same time author of large number of pedagogy and social education books including Other growth - Work School, published at the end of the First World War, a pedagogy guide in three parts:
- Gospel of love. Child and woman
- Work School- Priest and Teacher
- The Nature and the Book, until now in nine editions. One of editation was is in 2006.
After the establishment of communism in Romania, Simion Mehedinti has been marginalized and many of his works were banned until 1989.
